{"id":29948,"date":"2025-03-16T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=29948"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:10:58","slug":"use-a-command-prompt-to-check-your-windows-update-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/use-a-command-prompt-to-check-your-windows-update-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Use a Command Prompt to Check Your Windows Update History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Use a Command Prompt to Check Your Windows Update History<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This tip works in Windows 10 and Windows 11<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Windows updates are, by default, installed automatically and ensure that your Windows system is up-to-date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and hotfixes.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can check your Windows Update history in Windows 10 by going to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click on \u201cView installed update history\u201d,\u00a0 or in Windows 11 by going to Settings > Windows Update and clicking on “Update history”.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another way. You can check your update history using Command Prompt. Here’s how…<\/span><\/p>\n

Type CMD in the taskbar search. When the Command Prompt appears press Enter.\u00a0<\/span>At the prompt in the Command Prompt window, enter the following command:<\/span><\/p>\n

WMIC QFE LIST<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll see the date, a URL, and a KB number for each update. To learn more about an update, copy the KB number from the Command Prompt window and paste it into your favorite browser\u2019s address bar. <\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, one of the updates is \u201cKB5053598\u201d. So, type KB5053598 into Google search (or search of your choice) and you\u2019ll get a link to the relevant Microsoft page with more information about the KB5053598 update.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a Windows PowerShell fan or Windows Terminal fan you\u2019ll be happy to know that you can use PowerShell or Windows Terminal instead of a Command Prompt and get the same results.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Use a Command Prompt to Check Your Windows Update History This tip works in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Windows updates are, by default, installed automatically and ensure that your Windows system is up-to-date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and hotfixes. You can check your Windows Update history in Windows 10 by going to\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10,2366],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29950,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29948\/revisions\/29950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}